Example sentences of "[adv] and find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen went below and found a table in the cafeteria . |
| 2 | A. M. I went into Lime Street one night at ten o'clock and found a crowd of lads on the corner of Skelhorne Street coming out of the pub . |
| 3 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 4 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 5 | However , we now have an opportunity to show that Europe can address European problems and that we will intervene in a way that will give the people of Yugoslavia the opportunity to sit down together and find a peaceful solution to the problems . |
| 6 | Eventually Anthony took the pad away and found a few albino strands growing behind . |
| 7 | Then I ran away and found a squat . ’ |
| 8 | He went away and found a pay phone . |
| 9 | I went back to the guy and said , ‘ Look , go away and find a bright young archaeologist , preferably female . ’ |
| 10 | The acceptance of extract ( 5 ) as a reasonable piece of English conversational discourse involves implicitly assessing each expression in terms of the ‘ why ? ’ question above and finding a suitable answer . |
| 11 | At one stage , Fields had threatened to pull out of the arrangement altogether and find a new partner , until the CAA made it clear that Fields would not have a licence without Virgin 's involvement . |
| 12 | The cord rolled a little and found a new position . |
| 13 | I really would like a holiday , but I do n't want to spend a lot of money , and then come home and find an atmosphere . |
| 14 | No longer would it be necessary for her to leave school early and find a job to help support the household . |
| 15 | Me father drove here once and found a dozen men in balaclavas in the yard , it 's said . |
| 16 | He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back . |
| 17 | If you do get up later and find an old lady around the house , then — ’ |
| 18 | She stayed at the back of a shop until it was time to come out cautiously and find an unoccupied phone again . |
| 19 | If you do n't , tear up the appraisal farms today and find a better way to assess performance and make profit . |
| 20 | I succeeded almost immediately and found a good alignment of moats ending at Gill 's Lap pine clump on Ashdown Forest , one of the marks noted by Tony Wedd . |
| 21 | The move to Midshire even made economic sense ; she had several modest school recitals in Birmingham and the Black Country during the next month , and it would be cheaper to move up there and find a furnished room somewhere , rather than spend the intervening time here in town . |
| 22 | They landed the King Air at Sir William Robert 's strip there and found a couple of former Irish Air Corps two-seaters and one former Belgian Air Force Mk XIV all in a million bits . |
| 23 | She ran round there and found a woman collapsed on the floor , blood oozing from a cut on her arm and another on her thigh . |
| 24 | ‘ I never miss Midnight Mass at St Martin's-in-the-Field , ’ Oscar told him , ‘ so I 'd appreciate it greatly ii the meeting could be concluded quickly enough to allow me time to get there and find a pew with a good view . ’ |
| 25 | We had tenants in the house and one day he went missing upstairs and found a bag of lipstick , eye-liner and face powder , and decided it would be a good idea to plaster his face with it . |
| 26 | When one day nobody could rouse him from his trailer , it was Lee Marvin who entered quietly and found a sombre , lonely , sad man . |
| 27 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 28 | When a famous campaign is changed , it is still possible to carry out research on advertising recall for several years afterwards and find a substantial , sometimes even dominant , proportion of what is recalled being the old campaign . |